Construction bids coming in lower for expanding hospitals

Hospital systems that put off construction projects during the downturn are starting to get back into the fray ? and finding that it?s cheaper than it used to be.

?You can get a lot more for your money than you could three years ago,? said Mark Reckin, senior medical planner with Minneapolis-based architecture firm Ellerbe Becket, which helped design Mercy Health Partners? planned West Side hospital. ?Bids often come in 25 percent less than they would have.?

Mercy Health Partners will spend as much as $165 million to build a patient tower at its Anderson campus, expand Jewish Hospital and renovate Mercy Fairfield, as the Business Courier reported...

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